Organisational change is a fact of business life. With globalisation, increasedcompetition, and improved technology, organisations are moving towards flatterorganisational models.Managing the type of fundamental changes involved in moving from a hierarchical toa flatter organisational structure,...

Meetings, an understudied aspect of organisational life, play a key role in theformulation of strategy and strategic change within organisations. More importantly,the likelihood of proposals for strategic change being made, and how those proposalsare received in the wider organisation, depends...

This briefing examines the international success of British companies in the contextof the industries that they operate in. It does this by measuring international successusing global market share and international revenues and combining these in a matrixto create a visual representation of...

The issue of who benefits from innovation is a complex one. The answer is notalways the innovator. It may be other firms that are needed to get an innovationto market (complementary assets), or even those who produce imitations andadapted versions of the original innovation.For the innovator the...

Since the 1960s business schools have prospered in the UK. Now, however, there aresigns that the success story is coming to an end. The future of UK business schoolsis under threat from a number of directions. Their purpose is questioned – they areaccused of focusing on theoretical research at...

In a global economy, regional economies are exposed to greater economic threats,but also opportunities. In the UK several strategies have been introduced to improvelocal and regional competitiveness. One important strategy is the promotion ofclusters – geographic concentrations of expertise...